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Windows 7 NTFS.SYS Corrupt or Missing

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I have spent the last few hours looking through hundreds of posts, trying to figure out how to fix the error i am getting. My laptop has been working fine, until i was asked to do an update to my Graphics Driver, after i did the update i had to restart.
After i restarted the laptop it has not booted since.

Everytime, i start the laptop it says "Missing or Corrupt NTFS.SYS file".

What i have tried:

Startup Repair does not work, it tries to fix the issue but fails, it gives the error code 0x0.

System Recovery Options > Command Prompt > SFC Scan (It does not scan, says requires reboot but when i reboot the laptop the same thing happens over again.)

System Restore (I do not have any restore points for some reason)

I have done a ChkDsk /f /r C: (It ends up with "Failed to transfer logged messages to the event log with status 50." Other than it looks fine.)

Does not load it Safe Mode /With Networking /With Command Prompt

I am not getting a blue screen or anything like that, i am not sure what else to try.

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